Property market sentiment remains high, but for how long.

RP Data, together with Nine Rewards, released an update to their housing market sentiment survey this week. The headline findings showed that property market sentiment was substantially higher than what it was six months ago, but virtually unchanged from earlier in the year.

The survey was conducted across 1,030 respondents who were located across the capital city and ‘rest of state’ regions around the country.

The headline findings showed 80% of Australians think it’s a good time to buy a home but only 37% think it’s a good time to sell.

The results suggest, at least from a consumer perspective, that housing remains a buyers’ market.

With regards to consumer expectations for home values over the next six months and twelve months, the results were broadly positive, with 41% of respondents expecting values to rise over the next six months and half the respondents expecting values to rise over the next twelve months.

Both measures are a substantial improvement in the views of consumers from six months ago (33% of respondents expected values to rise over the next six months back in October 2012 and 42% expected values to rise over the coming twelve months in October last year).

What’s more interesting is looking at some of the more granular results by region around the country.

There aren’t any real surprises here…

The markets which are generally showing the most buyer activity and value recovery are also the markets where the largest proportion of consumers are expecting values to rise over the coming six and twelve months.

The Northern Territory (read Darwin), Perth and Sydney property markets are the markets where the largest proportion of consumers are expecting values to rise over the coming six and twelve months.

Conversely, very few respondents are expecting improving values within Tasmania, regional South Australia and the ACT.

It’s worthwhile noting that the survey responses were collected prior to the federal budget announcement.

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